Oracle BI 12c - Build Repositories

Repository Basics

• Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server
• Exploring a repository's structure, features, and functions
• Exploring Oracle BI architecture components
• Using the Oracle BI Administration Tool
• Creating a repository
• Installing the BI Client software

Building the Physical Layer of a Repository

• Examining physical layer object properties
• Importing data sources
• Setting up Connection Pool properties
• Creating alias tables
• Printing the physical layer diagram
• Defining keys and joins

Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository

• Building logical tables, columns, and sources
• Building a business model
• Building measures
• Examining business model object properties
• Defining logical joins
• Printing the business model and mapping layer diagram

Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository

• Exploring presentation layer objects
• Nesting presentation tables
• Modifying presentation layer objects
• Examining presentation layer object properties
• Controlling presentation layer object visibility
• Creating presentation layer objects

Testing and Validating a Repository

• Executing analyses to test the repository
• Uploading the repository through Enterprise Manager
• Inspecting the query log
• Checking repository consistency
• Turning on logging

Managing Logical Table Sources

• Specifying logical content
• Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table

Adding Calculations to a Fact

• Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns
• Creating measures using functions
• Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard
• Creating new calculation measures based on logical columns

Working with Logical Dimensions

• Creating dimension-specific aggregation rules
• Creating share measures
• Creating logical dimension hierarchies
• Creating level-based measures
• Creating ragged and skipped-level hierarchies
• Creating parent-child hierarchies
• Creating presentation hierarchies

Enabling Usage Tracking

• Tracking and storing Oracle BI Server usage at the detailed query level
• Creating the usage tracking tables
• Setting up the sample usage tracking repository
• Using usage tracking statistics to optimize query performance and aggregation strategies

Using Model Checker and Aggregates

• Setting the number of elements in a hierarchy
• Using the Aggregate Persistence Wizard
• Testing aggregate navigation
• Using Model Check Manager
• Modeling aggregate tables to improve query performance

Using Partitions and Fragments

• Exploring partition types
• Modeling partitions in an Oracle BI repository

Using Repository Variables

• Creating initialization blocks
• Creating session variables
• Using the Variable Manager
• Using dynamic repository variables as filters
• Creating repository variables

Modeling Time Series Data

• Using time comparisons in business analysis
• Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data

Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships

• Using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships between dimension tables and fact tables

Setting an Implicit Fact Column

• Ensuring the correct results for dimension-only queries
• Selecting a predetermined fact table source
• Specifying a default join path between dimension tables

Importing Metadata from Multidimensional Data Sources

• Incorporating horizintal federation into a business model
• Importing a multidimensional data source into a repository
• Displaying data from multidimensional sources in Oracle BI analyses and dashboards
• Adding Essbase measures to a relational model
• Incorporating vertical federation into a business model

Security

• Setting up object permissions
• Creating users and groups
• Exploring Oracle BI default security settings
• Setting query limits and timing restrictions
• Creating application roles
• Setting row-level security (data filters)

Cache Management

• Seeding the cache
• Inspecting cache reports
• Using Cache Manager
• Purging cache entries
• Restricting tables as non-cacheable
• Modifying cache parameters and options

Managing Metadata and Working with Service Instances

• Managing service instances using WLST commands
• Managing BAR files using WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) commands
• Using BI Application Archive (BAR) files to export and import service instances

Using Administration Tool Utilities

• Using the various Administration Tool utilities
• Using BI Server XML API to create XML representation of repository metadata

Multiuser Development

• Setting up a multiuser development environment
• Tracking development project history
• Developing a repository using multiple developers

Performing a Patch Merge

• Creating a patch
• Equalizing objects
• Making merge decisions
• Comparing repositories
• Applying a patch